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Definition of Chesnut
1. a type of tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chesnut
Literary usage of Chesnut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Sylva, Or, A Description of the Forest Trees, of the by François André Michaux, Augustus L Hillhouse (1819)
"The coolness of the1 summer and the mildness of the winter in these regions are
favourable to the chesnut ; the face of the country , also , is perfectly ..."
2. Elementary Principles of Carpentry by Thomas Tredgold, Peter Barlow (1853)
"The chesnut contains only a very small proportion of sap-wood, and therefore ...
Mr. Kent has observed a post of chesnut taken up sound after having stood ..."
3. Servants of the King by Robert Elliott Speer (1909)
"VI ELEANOR chesnut On the wall of one of the rooms of the Presbyterian Foreign
Mission Board, ... ELEANOR chesnut, whose name stands first on the tablet, ..."
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